Rooted in the landscape of the Bahamas and marked by a mastery of syntax, these poems are finely crafted works of art that reveal a distinctive use of language that is sensual in the most literal sen
When the guitars tickle a bedrock of drum and bass, when the girl a shock out and a steady hand curve round her sweat-smooth waist, when the smell of Charlie mingles with the chemicals of her hair and
This collection of poems explores the idea of passing time from the vantage point of later midlife. Explored are such universal experiences as the impending death of aging parents and the encroachment
The poems in Curry Flavour will grab you with their exuberant recreation of the dramas of an intensely experienced inner life. Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming was born in Trinidad in 1960. A mechanical/build
'Art of Navigation', the title poem, is the dreaming and re-dreaming of new potent frameworks for history. It follows, through different histories, man's ongoing search for an undiscovered continent.
George Campbell's poems began appearing in the 1930's, blast: through the colonial fustian of much current Jamaican poetry: First Poems, published in 1945, allowed the young Neville Dawes to feel, "we
Focusing on a sense of duty?to record family history, to envision wholeness out of fragments, and to dissolve the differences that prejudice may interpose between private and public selves?this rich c
This collection brings together unpublished poems, uncollected poems, and poems from the previous three collection of the late Mahadai Das. In her personal and political triumphs and losses, this book
In direct narrative terms the poems in this collection relate to the horrors of the civil war that ousted the brutal tyranny of Idi Amin in Uganda, a war of liberation that brought its own barbarous a
Indira Gabriel, recently abandoned by her lover, Solomon, embarks on a project to reinvigorate a dilapidated bar into something special. In this warm, funny, sexy, and bittersweet novel, Barbara Jenki
Colin Robinson’s long-awaited debut collection, You Have You Father Hard Head, represents a nuanced but unswerving engagement with desire and intimacy as he explores what it means to be a Caribbean so
